Opinion Journal: China's Rising Military

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I would do well this took ... the bus bombing of revelation are fair revelation in the media that the Chinese said they still played or at least of their pictures of the still under Brett Stevens or global view columnist ... they have a stall for what it's an import distinction and ... sport ... it's worth raising ... we've had photographs of what appears to be a stealth fighter taxing high speeds down a runway ... were told that it might actually take off ... sometime later this week ... it's probably not to be fielded for ... another decade ... but it does sort of provide a picture of a rising ... Chinese military power ... rising technological capabilities that are potentially capable ... of challenging Oz ... on their side of the Pacific ... with this fighter in particular it even if it takes off I would imagine or or ... or maybe with ... the real test would be his invisible to our radar door to our surveillance system although you nibble the sellers are we to rely on the China News Agency or ... there are so limited ... we probably won't really ... understand the spider so we get our hands on what you know but in the early nineties seventies with a big twenty five spots that cannot ... sorta look like an FST a lot of people were saying what the Soviet Super League matches technologically ... then made twenty five fighter defected to Japan we got our hands on one of these things that we realize it's basically ... a piece of junk with the engines ... this might also be a big piece of junk of this in the shape of one of our stuff letters ... the avionics matter ... the skin of the aircraft matters ... of the jet engines matter so ... that's really not you know I'm less worried about this spider the time of the general direction ... of Chinese the Chinese military particularly ... the Subodh their fielding ... equipment that looks like cars with fewer than what they call your asymmetrical tied equipment ... that can threaten our carriers are submarines are assets deployed in the region what I think this is a concert Tuesday you generally think of the sort of a ... free democratic capitalist of versus communist military provocations as being a ... technology from ITW's countries against ordered mass brute force numbers on the ... on the kindness I that was certainly this all the above but that now with the Chinese perhaps with their hybrid word has a thriving economy ... along with this regime of the seem to have a technological edge and in some areas are at least their competitive other missing earnings anticompetitive and in being able to field potentially ship killing of Youbin aircraft to ... killing ballistic missiles provider or high-speed ... cruise missiles ... the U S Navy is very concerned about specifically about the Chinese missile threat ... to remember about a year ago this newspaper had a story ... about Tara bytes of data from our at thirty five star programs being stolen apparently by the by the Chinese ... that might've had some effect of their ability to feel this ... spider up much sooner than ... the least of which we construct the spider much ... much sooner than we had ... anticipated ... I would expect that the technological edge still holds the remains of the United States ... with China is doing is associate ... of copycat sustainable model that the Soviets were pursuing ... but we really need to be of ... concern about ... is their ability to fuel ... large numbers of things like ... a satellite killing missiles ... ship killing missiles very quiet diesel electric submarines ... that could make it difficult for us to defend say Taiwan um or other areas in South China seas ... in the events of the crisis OK we'll keep